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Ugandan’s Harriet Anena, Nigeria’s Tanure Ojaide win 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature
Uganda’s Harriet Anena and Nigeria’s Professor Tanure Ojaide emerge joint winners of the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
Renowned poet Ikeogu Oke passes on in Abuja
Renowned poet and winner of the 2017 NLNG Prize for Literature, Ikeogu Oke, has passes on, according to reports.
Yemi Osinbajo: Politicians, scum of the earth
Vice President of Nigeria, Professsor Yemi Osinbajo, has said that politicians are described as scum of the earth, while lawyers, such as him are the most maligned.
Nigerians urged to oppose legislators’ jumbo pay
A literary activist and professor in North Carolina University in Charlotte, United States of America (USA), Tanure Ojaide, has frowned at the jumbo pay given to legislators in Nigeria not minding the fact that a vast majority of Nigerians live in crippling poverty and advised citizens to oppose it including other aspects of corruption, warning that doing nothing about it is dangerous to future generations.
Ikeogu Oke wins 2017 NLNG Prize for Literature
Ikeogu Oke has won the 2017 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company Prize for Literature.
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Kaduna killings: We don’t know casualty figure yet – CP
Two days after Governor Nasir El-Rufai put the figure at 130, Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdulrahman, has said that the casualty figures of Kajuru killings is yet to be ascertained.
Edwin Clark: It’s difficult to say if elections‘ll be free, fair
Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has expressed worries that with recent happenings in preparations for the general elections, “it will be difficult to say if the elections will be free and fair.”
MTN Uganda responds to government queries, says ‘we are tax compliant’
Uganda’s biggest telecommunications company MTN has denied government accusations it has been understating its revenues, insisting that it was fully meeting all its tax obligations.
President Buhari: Define the future of our country with your votes
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians to define the future of the country with their votes.
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Community protests killing of farmer by suspected herdsmen
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Zenith Bank’s gross earnings drops to N630.34 billion in 2018
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